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Video version. 508 is a show about Worcester. This week, I talk to Brendan Melican . Topics include inaccurate predictions , the Telegram & Gazette's website troubles , and WPI making non-tax payments to the city .
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week's panel is Jesse Pack, Cha-Cha Connor, and Brendan Melican . City Councilor Kate Toomey sent Mike birthday greetings on Facebook! Jesse is starting a "support fund" for area transsexuals facing homelessness and other difficulties. The homelessness rate among transsexuals is very high. Cha-Cha talks about her performance in the US premiere of A Journey to Kreisau, a dramatic presentation about Nazi resister Helmuth James Graf von Moltke ,...
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week's guest is Worcester City Council District 2 challenger Ana Sequera. The questions: * Why are you running, and how have you been active in public life in Worcester up till now? * Do we have enough housing in Worcester? What should the City Council do about this? * What should the City Council's role be regarding the public schools? * Where would the jobs come from that would keep more of our high school and college graduates in Worcester? What's the City...
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk to Jessica Walsh and tour Worcester Wares, a new store in the DCU Center. Show notes: http://www.PieAndCoffee.org/2015/08/20/508-262-worcester-wares/
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Mike, Brendan Melican, and Tracy Novick talk about an MCAS cheating scandal in the city schools. Show notes
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Mike and Brendan talk about the District 13 primary, among other things. Show notes
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk with Brendan Melican and (not-quite) Jose Canseco about downtown changes and baseball. Show notes
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week's panel is Brendan Melican, Nicole Apostola, Dee Wells, Nat Needle, Matt Feinstein, Claire Schaeffer-Duffy, Gabe Rollins, and Asa Needle. Show notes
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, the HX library of radical and science fiction books moves to Stone Soup. An uncut, uncompromising look. Show notes: http://www.PieAndCoffee.org/2014/03/02/508-239-hx-library/
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week's guest is Worcester City Council At-Large challenger Tina Zlody. The questions: * Why are you running, and how have you been active in public life in Worcester up till now? * Do we have enough housing in Worcester? What should the City Council do about this? * What should the City Council's role be regarding the public schools? * Where would the jobs come from that would keep more of our high school and college graduates in Worcester? What's the City...
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Every election year, inspired by Jay Rosen, we ask: "What do you want the candidates to be discussing as they compete for votes in this year's Worcester City Council election?" We sift through the suggested questions and pick 3 or 4. Then, we try to interview every City Council challenger on the show, asking those same questions. To prime the pump, this week we get some suggestions from Brendan Melican, Bill Coleman, and Virginia Ryan. Show notes:...
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This week, Brendan and Clifford Reiss talk about Stone Soup. Show notes
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Show notes , video version . 508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel includes Brendan Melican and Scott Zoback. Colin Novick’s ordination is tomorrow (we got this wrong last week); the Save Our Poolz movement looks back at the past year and considers new strategy; Worcester may be getting CORI reform. This week’s Worcester Magazine covers our nation’s hard times by noting the stories of Foothills Theater, Lujon, and Papamoka. The Telegram and Gazette is up for sale–Mike had...
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about shopping locally. show notes , video link
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about the symbolic collapse of Worcester's mainstream media, Worcester's lack of housing permits, the City Council agenda, and driveway freedom. Show notes: https://wp.me/p6vFvb-1z0
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Kevin Ksen, Brendan Melican, and Tracy Novick. We talk about the City Council election. We talk about the School Committee election. We talk about a new Worcester video site Mike’s playing with (and you should, too). We talk about a $10 million lawsuit against Worcester for an incident during the taping of the Fox TV show COPS in 2006. show notes , video version
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508 is a show about Worcester. This weeks panelists are Greg Opperman, Tracy Novick, Brendan Melican, and Mike Benedetti. Tracy, a School Committee Member, talks about fundraising efforts for the vandalized Belmont Street Community School. You can help. We spend most of the show talking about the upcoming city school budget, and why there always seems to be a funding crisis. Greg is the cook behind the uncontested world-champion vegan macaroni and cheese recipe. Mike has entered a charity beard...
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week's panel is Peter Sulski, Tracy Kraus, Krista Buckland Reisner, David Russell, Ian Watson, and Brendan Melican. Our subject: the Worcester Chamber Music Society. Show notes
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Mike and Brendan create version 1.0 of "What do you want the City Council candidates to be discussing as they compete for votes in this year's election?" For more see pieandcoffee.org
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This week, Brendan and Clifford Reiss talk about Stone Soup. Show notes
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Mike and Brendan make predictions for 2011. Show notes
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Brendan Melican, Gabe Rollins, and Cha-Cha Connor talk about population density and their determination to have a great summer. Show notes
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Mike, Brendan, and Drew are snowed on. show notes , video version
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Mike and Brendan talk about pit bulls, Seth Godin, Billy Breault, marijuana, heroin, and the Turtle Boy's creator. Show notes
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week's panel is Brendan Melican and Chris Warren. Show notes
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week's panel is Benito Vega, Gary Rosen, Brendan Melican, and a very special mute guest. Show notes
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about the late Bishop Rueger, transit plans, more Worcester apartments, Airbnb economics, volunteer opportunities, plastic bag bans, hard drugs, and the Didache. Show notes: http://www.PieAndCoffee.org/2019/04/25/freak-the-man-freely-508-328/
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk to Chilean immigrant Romina Barria as she prepares to move from Worcester to Oregon. We also cover George Frisbie Hoar vandalism, stART, the ACLU's COPD, pervasive surveillance, why are conversations limited to four people?, giving MDMA to octopuses, giving LSD to dolphins, Worcester's most-endangered buildings, and the Mt Carmel deed restriction. Show notes: http://www.pieandcoffee.org/2018/10/26/romina-barria-508-312/
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we discuss a non-renaissance framing for city events in 2018, MassLive on Worcide, volunteer fixers, Father John Madden on panhandling, YIMBY dynamics, and the sad truth about happiness scales. Show notes: http://www.PieAndCoffee.org/2018/08/13/the-truth-about-worcester-official-508-306/
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week's guest is Worcester City Council District 2 challenger Candy Mero-Carlson. The questions: * Why are you running, and how have you been active in public life in Worcester up till now? * Do we have enough housing in Worcester? What should the City Council do about this? * What should the City Council's role be regarding the public schools? * Where would the jobs come from that would keep more of our high school and college graduates in Worcester? What's...
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Talk about utility failures and panhandling with Brendan Melican and Jen Burt. Show notes: Link
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video version , show notes 508 is a show about Worcester. This week's panelists are Tracy Novick and Brendan Melican. 508 is now arguably the first local program to be an equal citizen of both the internet and TV. You can watch it on Worcester cable channel 13 Tuesdays at 12:30am and 11:30am. Plenty of local programs from traditional media have some internet component, in most cases, unfortunately, on the periphery of what they do, rather than near the core. We touch on shopping locally, then...
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we roll the d20, read Nassim Taleb, and discuss a possible slot machine facility in Worcester. Show notes: http://pieandcoffee.org
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Nicole Apostola, Chris Robarge, and Tracy Novick. We talk about the reopening of Stone Soup, Worcester Magazine’s story on the American Antiquarian Society, the hunt for a new City Manager, and how to explain the role of the Worcester City Council to political newbies. Show notes: http://www.PieAndCoffee.org/2014/01/30/508-237-the-city-manager-hunt/
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about local journalism, past, present, and future, with participants in the Worcester Institute for Senior Education at Assumption College. Special thanks to Tracy Novick and Karl Hakkarainen. Show notes: http://www.PieAndCoffee.org/2013/03/15/508-214-the-future-of-journalism
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Nicole Apostola, Mike Benedetti, Brendan Melican, and Tina Zlody talk about demolition, art festivals, prostitution, and politics. Show notes
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week's panel is Gabe Rollins, power player Tina Zlody, and Brendan Melican, with brief appearances from Asa Needle and a boomerang. Show notes
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week's panelist is Tracy Novick. We talk about parliamentary procedure, Stone Soup, and beards.
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Chris Robarge talks about Worcester Boards and Commissions. Also: knives.
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Scott Schaeffer-Duffy, Robert Peters, and Brendan Melican discuss Worcester’s anti-panhandling laws and opposing them with civil disobedience. Show notes: http://www.pieandcoffee.org/2013/02/06/508-212-what-would-francis-do/
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